The Virginian-Pilot
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ANNAPOLIS, Md.
The U.S. Naval Academy has been ranked the most popular liberal arts college in the country by U.S. News & World Report, based on the percentage of accepted applicants who choose to enroll there.
Eighty-six percent of students accepted by the academy enroll there. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point ranked second, with 77 percent of accepted students enrolling.
The Naval Academy's enrollment rate is also higher than the magazine's top-rated national university, Brigham Young, where 77 percent of accepted students enroll.
The data is from the fall 2009 entering class.
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ENROLLMENT RATE
If the single criteria used to measure popularity is the "Enrollment Rate," then I'm not sure this produces a valid outcome. I have to admit I'm shocked the Naval Academy is ranked Number One among LIBERAL ARTS SCHOOLS! If you are going to judge Liberal Arts Schools, then you need to include criteria for beer drinking, football, spring break activities, ability to sleep in on week days, lack of a dress code, randomness of sexual experiences, inability to distinguish Professors among the Student Body, and probably many more "Liberal" criteria
I can't believe the Academy would even want to be included in this competition. Maybe it's the economy, stupid. Every USNA Grad is hired by the Military! Who would turn a job down, today?
"Lilly white?"
YOUR word, not mine.
Not quite.
Among the many minorities there with us "fossils" in those days were J. Paul Reason, the first, and to date only African-American officer in the United States Navy to become a four-star admiral, and Charles Bolden, the current Administrator of NASA, a retired United States Marine Corps major general, and former NASA astronaut.
I will not disparage the many fine officers from NROTC, OCS and Direct Commissioning Programs as one of the missions of the Naval Academy was to imbue us with a sense of gentlemanly conduct and courtesy.
Naval Academy Curriculum
From their website:
"The Naval Academy's curriculum blends professional subjects with required and elective courses similar to those offered at leading civilian colleges. Our curriculum has three basic elements:
- core requirements in engineering, natural science, the humanities and social sciences, to assure that graduates are able to think, solve problems and express conclusions clearly;
- core academic courses and practical training to teach the professional and leadership skills required of Navy and Marine Corps officers; and
- an academic major in a subject chosen by midshipmen to develop their individual interests and talents."
When I attended (a long time ago), it was almost entirely an engineering curriculum for all.
JPJONES?
I thought you were buried under the chapel dome? You DO go back a long way.
Correct
And it was lilly white, all men and they taught you that the world was flat too.
Your Revisionist History Is O-So-Wrong.
The "lilly-white" Navy that you are talking about, is this the same United States Navy where the very first Admiral in the history of our Navy and our Nation was a hispanic Naval Officer? This Admiral was David G. Farragut of the "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead fame". God Bless the Navy-Marine Corps Team!
I would hardly characterize any of our Service Academys as
I would hardly characterize any of our Service Academies as Liberal Arts Colleges, which are primarily focused on arts, humanities, religion, philosophy, literature, sociology, anthropology and women's studies, etc. Perhaps this is the new direction for our military officers.
The Most Important Factor For Today's Military Officer Is
politcal correctness.
Wake Up Ring Knockers
The world changed since you fossils attended the Boat School. The rest of us from NROTC, OCS and Direct Commissioning Programs had a well rounded education and seemed to gain some mastery of the sciences as well. Oh yeah...I forgot...did you know that they admit women and minorities now too....buy a calendar and read the date!
Of course!
Beat Army!